{"product_id":"shyness-and-dignity-9781555974466","title":"Shyness and Dignity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dag Solstad\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Wild Duck\u003ci\u003e. He was once more struck by their hostile attitude toward him. But it couldn't be helped, he had a task to perform and was going through with it. It was from them as a group that he sensed that massive dislike sent forth by their bodies. Individually they could be very pleasant, but together, positioned like now, at their desks, they constituted a structural enmity, directed at him and all that he stood for.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElias Rukla begins yet another day under the leaden Oslo sky. At the high school where he teaches, a novel insight into Ibsen's \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Duck \u003c\/i\u003egrips him with a passion so intense that he barely notices the disinterest of his students. After the lesson, when a broken umbrella provokes an unpredictable rage, he barely notices the students' intense curiosity. He soon realizes, however, that this day will be the decisive day of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eShyness and Dignity, \u003c\/i\u003e Dag Solstad - praised in Norway as one of the most innovative novelists of his generation - offers an intricate and richly drawn portrait of a man who feels irrevocably alienated from contemporary culture, politics, and, ultimately, humanity.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354612785303,"sku":"9781555974466","price":961.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781555974466.webp?v=1767669842","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shyness-and-dignity-9781555974466","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}